Autism Vox

Something that haunts every parent

by Kristina Chew, PhD on May 31st, 2006

Commenting on “the recent glut of books about autism”—including the non-fiction Ollie: the true story of a brief and courageous life by mountaineer Stephen Venables and the novel Daniel Isn’t Talking by Marti Leimbach—Helena Drysdale in the New Statesman notes that all of these books reflect

both the burgeoning number of cases and our hunger to read about something that haunts every parent but has yet to be explained.

Autism haunting “every parent”? Because of the “burgeoning number of cases“? Because of some fear that autism is contagious?

I suppose it is not a bad thing for autism to be on the mind of every parent.

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